Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 13, 2010

As user-generated content becomes a greater part of professional workflow, it is important for B2B marketers to understand not only where their customers are interacting, but also their motivations when they are consuming or participating in these communities. Trend #4: Social media participants expect companies to join the conversation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. Unfortunately, the same lack of content leverage applies to photographs as well. Why isn’t the Manifesto it’s own tab? Your Web site. At a minimum.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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Brightedge

MAY 16, 2021

Download the content funnel mapping checklist. Ellis named and started the growth hacker movement in 2010 after his successes at Dropbox and Logmein. Download a Content Funnel Mapping Checklist to help you deliver your message to your prospects and customers. He covers the implications for web site content as well.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Both seek to keep your brand top-of-mind with customers and prospects, communicating in a relevant, timely way that ideally is measurable and testable. But the problem with email and social media is that too many people are positioning it as an either/or scenario. .

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. But remember, every successful content creator starts the same way – with no audience, and a blinking cursor.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. This 28-page white paper is chock full of useful information for aligning your marketing content with the industrial buy cycle. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. Since April, 2010 Western River has collected more than 1,100 of these customer stories. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. It’s imperative that you select the most relevant ones that match with your blog’s purpose and intent. What’s the Point? As I see it, there are 3 options here: 1.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

We have focused on relevant followers, in our industry by and large. By far and away it has been our best means of getting our story out, and capturing business. I do wnode about more followers, and do more followers equate to more business opportunities.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym. Customers don’t need more messages.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? In 2010, almost 50% of small businesses will include “follow us” links in their e-mails, and about 44% will include share options in their messages. See charts below).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. I'm impressed with the quality as well as the frequency of your solid content.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace Driving Sales with Relevancy and Utility [link] Innovate AZ 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. But, I’m not.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman July 18, 2010 at 11:22 am Achinta; This is a great article – thanks for posting it! Achinta Mitra July 19, 2010 at 1:47 pm Eric, Thank you for posting your thoughtful comments.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. We converted several of their PowerPoint files into online Flash presentations to highlight the primary benefits and features of their software suite.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! Don’t just rely on analysis, refine your list based on relevance to your business, products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Have them document EVERY question they receive. Buy your own product.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. How much money should we be pulling from the email budget, to support social media?

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